Encourage Michael McCormack

Can you help us encourage your political representative Michael McCormack MP?

Recently Michael McCormack MP of Riverina has spoken on tax avoidance and we’d like to tell them the importance of Australia’s role in overcoming poverty.

In Parliament Michael McCormack MP said:

We need to make sure that there are suitable penalties for large companies engaging in tax avoidance and profit shifting. We need to make sure that there is deterrence for those companies to make sure that they do not try to risk it. This is important legislation.

More than $1 trillion each year is robbed from developing countries through tax dodging, corruption and money-laundering. The IMF recent estimates found that $200 billion in potential revenue is stripped from developing nations and the world’s most needy by tax avoidance alone. We can help stem this tide and ensure that the poorest nations have the finances & tax revenues they need to fight poverty.

Whenever a politician engages with the issues we all care passionately about, it’s important to encourage, thank, or even challenge them. It doesn't mean we support that politician, or endorse everything they say. But if they don’t hear from passionate people in their electorate when they do speak up, it’s easy for them to give up, get cynical, or assume their electorate doesn’t care about tax avoidance and Australian aid.

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